ED CURTIN—Maybe a hawk killed the bluejay, but if so, it didn’t gloat over its body. It would have been operating under the laws of necessity, where as far as we know, compassion has no place. Not true for Che’s killers. Here they are posing for the camera, guns still aimed at the dead man, as if he still posed a great danger to them. They were right, at least in the long term.
CAPITALIST SICKNESS
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The US is on a Path to War with China. What is to be done?
76 minutes readK J NOH—The final dimension to the US-China competition is economic: this is the uncanny fact that China’s “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” works and outclasses Western neoliberal capitalism by leaps and bounds. In terms of developing an economy, raising living standards, creating public wealth, serving and meeting its people’s needs, and dealing with crises, China beats the capitalist west hands down.
Even the Trump administration, even as they claimed that such a state-led economy could never compete against the superior free-market economy of the US, have insistently demanded that China dismantle their planned economy in trade negotiations, because of its superior advantages over capitalism.
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Beware the Movement’s “Controlled Opposition”
4 minutes readShannon Jones, of Bronxites for NYPD Accountability, who was among 250 people arrested at a massive police assault on protesters, June 4, warns that some corporate foundation-funded groups now constitute a “controlled opposition” to the ruling order. “Follow the money,” said Jones. “There are so many organizations that are profiting and poverty-pimping off of Black pain and struggle.” Jones’ organization and others have for several years been confronting the NYPD under the slogan “F the Police.”
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ERIC SCHECHTER—Russiagate is interesting. The Democrats cannot accuse Trump of any of his real crimes, though they are many, because the Democrats are guilty of all those same crimes. So instead the Democrats had to invent a crime, and make use of the fact that they currently have better control of the corporate news media. A lie repeated sufficiently many times begins to seem true. And why not simultaneously paint Russia or China as bad guys; this will enable the weapons companies to sell more weapons at higher profit.
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End capitalism, because p'(t) = kp(t) ⇒ p(t) = p(0)exp(kt)
9 minutes readERIC SCHECHTER—But exponential growth and tipping points are just descriptions of how fast. How are humans causing global warming? Materially, the three biggest ways are fossil fuels, deforestation, and cow farts.
Yes, cow farts. We humans, especially in the wealthier countries, are eating a lot of beef, mostly from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. CAFO cattle don’t get to graze on grass; instead they are fed cheap grains. This unnatural diet produces a great deal of methane as a side effect. (Pig shit too, to a lesser degree.)